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Psychological Impact of a “Health-at-Every-Size” Intervention on Weight-Preoccupied OverweightObese Women
Joint Authors
Boivin, Sonia
Gagnon-Girouard, Marie-Pierre
Tremblay, Angelo
Provencher, Véronique
Mongeau, Lyne
Lemieux, Simone
Bégin, Catherine
Source
Issue
Vol. 2010, Issue 2010 (31 Dec. 2010), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2010-06-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of a “Health-at-every-size” (HAES) intervention on psychological variables and body weight the weight-preoccupied overweight/obese women.
Those women were randomized into three groups (1) HAES, (2) social support (SS), (3) waiting-list (WL), and were tested at baseline, post-treatment and six-month and one-year follow-ups.
All participants presented significant psychological improvement no matter if they received the HAES intervention or not.
However, even if during the intervention, the three groups showed improvements, during the follow up, the HAES group continued to improve while the other groups did not, even sometimes experiencing some deterioration.
Furthermore, in the HAES group only, participant's weight maintenance 12 months after the intervention was related to their psychological improvement (quality of life, body dissatisfaction, and binge eating) during the intervention.
Thus, even if, in the short-term, our study did not show distinctive effects of the HAES intervention compared to SS and WL on all variables, in the long-term, HAES group seemed to present a different trajectory as psychological variables and body weight are maintained or continue to improve, which was not the case in other groups.
These differential long-term effects still need to be documented and further empirically demonstrated.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gagnon-Girouard, Marie-Pierre& Bégin, Catherine& Provencher, Véronique& Tremblay, Angelo& Mongeau, Lyne& Boivin, Sonia…[et al.]. 2010. Psychological Impact of a “Health-at-Every-Size” Intervention on Weight-Preoccupied OverweightObese Women. Journal of Obesity،Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-12.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gagnon-Girouard, Marie-Pierre…[et al.]. Psychological Impact of a “Health-at-Every-Size” Intervention on Weight-Preoccupied OverweightObese Women. Journal of Obesity No. 2010 (2010), pp.1-12.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Gagnon-Girouard, Marie-Pierre& Bégin, Catherine& Provencher, Véronique& Tremblay, Angelo& Mongeau, Lyne& Boivin, Sonia…[et al.]. Psychological Impact of a “Health-at-Every-Size” Intervention on Weight-Preoccupied OverweightObese Women. Journal of Obesity. 2010. Vol. 2010, no. 2010, pp.1-12.
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Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-508854